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Can someone please identify this weed?

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For some reason, "PlantSnap" & "PictureThis" can't seem to ID it.
It has white flowers & red berries. Any ideas?

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HU-19838931

last year

The berries look like those on horizontal cotonaster but without leaves it is hard to tell. cotonaster grows in a rambling sort of way and the blooms are from a light pink to white and resemble asters. the leaves when they are there are shiny green, oval and small 1/2 to 3/4 inch long.

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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
last year
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You have 2 different plants there. The white things are seeds, in a dandelion-type arrangement. Probably some kind of Aster.

The berries belong to something else. Where were these plants spotted?
yms1975
Original Author
last year
They're most likely weeds. I found them in a neglected garden bed & also along the bricks, at the back of our garage.
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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Possibly. You can't decide unless you know what it is. By where is it growing, I meant where in the world - what country or state?
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
last year
The berries look like something in the Solanaceae. Possibly a Lycium???
yms1975
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@Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL

I'm in the Niagara, ON Region.
yms1975
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@floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK Not sure.
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
last year
It's NOT a cotoneaster!! C. horizontalis has a very distinctive, spreading growth habit often described as a "fishbone". It does not grow upright and the flowers look nothing like asters. As a member of the rose family, Rosaceae, cotoneaster flowers are 5 petaled, white and tiny. And it will never produce fluffy looking seedheads.

There are two separate plants being shown in the photos but at that stage of their yearly cycle, precisely what they are is very difficult to tell.
yms1975 thanked gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
last year
Yep. 100% not any Cotoneaster. The berries are 100% something in the Solanaceae and the fluffy seed are of a separate plant in the Asteraceae.
Jay 6a Chicago
11 months ago
The nightshade appears to be a vine which would most likely be Solanum dulcamara. The other plant looks like a typical aster of some kind.

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